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France-United States space cooperation - French science instrument on InSight ‘hears’ sound of Martian winds for the first time
Teams at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, have begun checking out InSight on Mars after the excitement and tension of its…
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France-United States space cooperation - InSight Mars exploration mission - First tests of French SEIS seismometer successful
After the excitement and tension of its successful landing on Mars on Monday 26 November, InSight has started powering up and checking out its…
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A new method for weighing super-massive black holes
Scientists have revealed, for the first time outside our Galaxy, the properties of rapidly moving gas clouds in the immediate vicinity of a super…
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France-United States space cooperation - French science on Mars - InSight lands on Mars with French SEIS seismometer
Monday 26 November at 20:54 CET, InSight (INterior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) landed on Mars with the…
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Parker Solar Probe: French research takes off for the Sun
Parker Solar Probe will soon become the spacecraft to travel the closest to the Sun, by positioning itself a little over 6 million kilometers from…
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First light for SPIRou, exoplanet hunter
SPIRou, the new planet-hunting spectropolarimeter developed for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), has successfully recorded its first…
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